A Merseyside Police sergeant has been found GUILTY of “grossly abusing” his position by forcing a prostitute to perform a sex act or face arrest.
David Gibson, 44, was convicted of wilful misconduct in a public office by unanimous decision after a five day trial at Liverpool Crown Court today.
Gibson showed no emotion in the dock as he was found guilty by the jury after around five hours of deliberations and the judge went straight to sentencing.
Gibson, of Kirkman Fold, Rainhill , told the woman, who cannot be named, that he would arrest or fine her unless she did something for him to be “the nice man” and let her go.
The court heard the victim, who was withdrawing from heroin and alcohol at the time, had been forced to go out and sell her body by an abusive ex-partner, also a drug addict.
Merseyside Police sergeant David Gibson, who allegedly engaged in a sexual act with a prostitute while on duty, leaves Liverpool Crown Court on the first day of his trial.
Maria Masselis, prosecuting, had told the jury: “We say the defendant grossly abused his position as a police officer and took advantage of a vulnerable woman for his own sexual gratification.
“It is an inescapable conclusion that such behaviour amounts to misconduct because he could not have been properly performing his police duties at the time.”
The court heard Gibson slipped out of Eaton Road police station, in West Derby , during a night shift on November 6, 2014, without making a log of where he was going or telling any of his colleagues.
CCTV footage showed him driving an unmarked Ford Focus around the Shiel Road area, before pulling up and allowing the 30-year-old woman to get into the car.
Ms Masselis said: “She asked him to arrest her. He refused. She offered to pay the fine. He said she would have no money to pay it. She asked him to be the nice man and let her go, and she promised she would stay away from the streets.
“He said he could get in trouble for letting her go, and asked what she would do for him to be the nice man.”
The pair drove to a more secluded location, where the woman claimed Gibson “was a bit rough” and refused to wear a condom.
After the incident he told her she was “getting nothing” because he had “got her off from being nicked.”
Merseyside Police sergeant David Gibson (right), who allegedly engaged in a sexual act with a prostitute while on duty, leaves Liverpool Magistrates Court.
In her police interview, she told officers she felt “blackmailed” by Gibson and said she “didn’t think someone would put me through that.”
Asked how it made her feel, she said: “Disgusted, I just wanted to get out of the car and go home. I felt vulnerable. I felt like I had to do something for nothing, it’s bad enough doing it for money but not for nothing.”
Gibson was caught after a volunteer from the charity Streetwise, which offers support and advice for street based sex workers, overheard her saying she “had to do some business for a policeman.”
During the subsequent investigation forensic experts found semen from the defendant on the passenger seat of the vehicle, and later saliva from the woman.
Gibson was arrested on November 18, 2014, but claimed in interview that he would not “touch a sex worker with a barge pole” because “a lot of them carry disease.”
He said he had been on a drive around trying to gather intelligence about drug dealing.
When confronted with the forensic evidence he claimed he had masturbated in the vehicle around an hour before meeting the woman, and may have stained the seat when he leaned over to throw a tissue out of the window.
In court he told the jury he had been suffering from the skin condition psoriasis, and had been rubbing his groin area which led to him becoming aroused. He claimed this was the first and only time in 22 years as a police officer that he had pleasured himself while on active duty.
Merseyside Police sergeant David Gibson, who allegedly engaged in a sexual act with a prostitute while on duty, leaves Liverpool Crown Court on the first day of his trial.
However Ms Masselis dismissed his defence as “implausible” and told the jury: “For this defendant to be telling the truth he would have to be regarded as one of the unluckiest men that ever lived.
“You would have to entertain a series of the most extraordinary coincidences. One, the only time his semen has ever been on the inside of a police vehicle, he is arrested. Two, the complainant is able to predict the presence of semen in the vehicle.”
In a bizarre exchange, Gibson also claimed that an officer receiving a sex act from a prostitute would not be “abandoning his duties” as long as he was “ready to respond.”
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